Correspondenz [und] Artikel aus Veracruz (erste Zeit der Intervention), 1861-1862.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878.

Contributor:

Juárez, Benito, 1806-1872.

Gutiérrez Estrada, José María, 1800-1867

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Language:

French

German

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Mexico--History--European intervention, 1861-1867.

Mexico.

History.

Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico)--History.

Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico).

Genre:

clippings (information artifacts)

political cartoons

drawings (visual works)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, German.

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Manuscripts, Mexican.

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, Latin American.

Penn Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on some items contained in the same file, entitled Mapas etnológicos; no ex libris stamp on the present papers).

Physical Description:

68 leaves : paper ; 271-290 x 210-216 mm bound to 290 x 236 mm + 4 notes

Contained In:

Mapas etnológicos.

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 245

Place of Publication:

Veracruz, 1861-1862.

Language Note:

Predominantly German, with some Spanish and French.

Summary:

Collection of material assembled by C. Hermann Berendt, predominantly his own letters, or excerpts from them, written by him from Veracruz, Mexico, concerning the period of Spanish, French and British intervention in Mexico in 1861 to 1862. Berendt's letters are generally in the form of handwritten copies made by him, evidently carbon copies in most cases, some with headings that characterize them as excerpts (aus meinem Briefe; f. 5, 9); at least some were submitted for publication. One letter is in the form of a newspaper clipping of his correspondence to the German-American newspaper New Yorker Staatszeitung (f. 2), carrying the date 31 November and (according to Berendt's entry in the table of contents) printed in the paper on 1 December 1862. Two other letters (f. 3, 5) have pencilled notes indicating that they were sent to someone by the name of Marr, possibly the German journalist and publicist Wilhelm Marr (in one case, the publication of the letter is noted; f. 3). Included are several items copied by Berendt from Mexican broadsides or other sources, including satirical poetry (f. 46-48), and the text of a speech given by President Benito Juárez before the Mexican Congress, 20 April 1862 (f. 64). Also included is a political cartoon that is possibly an original drawing by Berendt (f. 55). At back, listed as an appendix (Anhang) is a letter from Don José Maria Gutierrez y Estrada to Father Francisco Javier Miranda, 14 December 1858, as printed in the Veracruz government publication El Progreso (3 March 1859), with notes by Berendt (f. 68). Accompanying the manuscript (in the same folder) are several loose drawings, including sketches related to General Pim's arrival in Veracruz in 1862, and a depiction of the fort on San Juan de Ulúa Island.

Contents:

1. ff. 2 [=1]: Correspondenz für die New Yorker Staatszeitung, 1 Dezember 1861.

2. ff. 3-4 [=3,5]: 31. Dezember 1861: Die Vorgänge in Mexico [sent to Marr; printed in the newspaper Freischütz, 24 Feb. 1862].

3. ff. 5-8 [=7, 9, 11, 13]: 21. Januar 1862 [letter dated 20 Jan. 1862; sent to Marr with 3 illustrations, for the Illustrirte Zeitung].

4. ff. 9-14 [=15-20]: 1. Februar 1862 [letter dated 30. Jan. 1862].

5. ff. 15-16: [Lettre] à messieurs les representants des trois puissances alliés Veracruz, [date:] Veracruz le 10 Février 1862.

6. ff. 17-23 [=21-27]: 21 Februar 1862.

7. ff. 24-31 [=28-35]: 2 März 1862.

8. ff. 32-35 [=36-39]: 12. März 1862.

9. ff. 36-38 [=40-42]: 22. März 1862.

10. ff. 39-45 [=43-49]: 31. März 1862.

11. ff. 46 [=50]: Oda al impertérrito General Prim [copied from a Mexican broadside].

12. ff. 47 [=51]: Zwei Epigramme auf Prim.

13. ff. 48 [=52]: Sacré nom d'un chien, due Maximilien [circulated in Mexico in March 1862].

14. ff. 49-53 [=53-57]: 14 April 1862.

15. ff. 54 [=58]: Declaración de algunas Veracruzanos - prohibida! [dated 19 April 1862; from a Mexican broadside?].

16. ff. 55 [=59]: Caricatura del 10 de Abril.

17. ff. 56-63 [60-67]: 1 May 1862 [letter dated 30 April 1862].

18. ff. 64-67 [68-71]: Eröffnungsrede des mexikanischen regelmässigen Congresses durch President Benito Juarez am 20 April 1862.

19. f. 68 [=72]: Anhang: La Monarquia en Mexico: Brief vom Don José Maria Gutierrez y Estrada an den Padre Miranda vom 14. Dezember 1858 [abgedruckt in El Progreso, Veracruz, 3. März 1859], und Anmerkungen.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Item 245 is one of 7 items (Items 242-248), on disparate topics related to the Indians of Central America, that were contained in a cardboard portfolio labelled: Mapas etnológicos.

Title from the title written at the head of the table of contents (f. 1).

Foliation: Paper, 68; [i], 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15-20, [ii], 21-71, [72]; contemporary foliation in ink or pencil, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil lower right recto. The contemporary numbering corresponds to pagination for the first seven leaves, and foliation thereafter. References in this record are to the modern foliation. In the table of contents, the first four location references (1, 3, 7, 15) correspond to modern foliation 2, 3, 5, 9; and thereafter the references are consistently 4 higher than the modern foliation. Three leaves are tipped in on a single paper guard (f. 46 on the recto, and f. 47 and 48 on the verso) ; f. 68 is tipped in on the inside lower cover; two leaves of newspaper articles (unfoliated) are bound in at back, immediately preceding f. 68; f. 63 is a partial leaf, with the lower two-thirds torn away. Four full or partial leaves with drawings accompany the manuscript.

Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt, with two components that appear to be entirely (f. 15-16) or partially (f. 54) in a different hand.

Decoration: Full-page detailed drawing in ink, comprising a political cartoon, including figures labeled as Prim (Juan Prim y Prats) and Dubois de Saligny (f. 55). Among loose drawings are two small sketches in ink on tracing paper depicting General Prim and another figure on horseback, respectively; a rough pencilled sketch labeled as the arrival of Prim in Veracruz, 8 January 1862; and a drawing, also in pencil, of the harbor and the fort on San Juan de Ulúa Island.

Binding: Contemporary paper covers. Spine covering tattered; upper cover detached; lower cover missing fragments around margins.

Origin: Predominantly written in Veracruz, Mexico, from December 1861 to approximately May 1862. Included is a clipping dated 1858, with an accompanying page of handwritten notes that is undated (f. 68).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 245

OCLC:

793118414